Punjab

In a video on Facebook, Khaira on Friday, alleged a conspiracy within the party to poison the minds of AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia, to have him removed from the post of leader of the AAP legislative party in the state assembly. Following is the copy of memorandum given to […]

The Punjab government’s bulk transfers of the deputy superintendents of police (DSPs) to check the cops’ alleged connivance with the drug mafia has raised the eyebrows of many in Bathinda as an officer, who was indicted in two inquiries for releasing an accused in a drug case in April last year, will be back here. […]

Nine new cabinet ministers were inducted into the Punjab cabinet on Saturday. The much-delayed expansion of the Punjab cabinet took place with the Congress finalising names of nine new ministers after two-day marathon meetings between Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh and Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Governor V P Singh Badnore administered the oath of […]

A 15-year-old girl was murdered after she was allegedly raped at Manepur village of Gurdaspur district on Tuesday night. The victim, a Class-8 dropout, had gone missing on Tuesday night, her family said. Her father is a combine operator and her mother had died soon after her birth, the police said. Gurdaspur senior superintendent of […]

Former cricketer and Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu is reportedly very upset over legal position taken by Congress-ruled Punjab in the Supreme Court in his three-decade-old Patiala road rage case last week.The Punjab government’s counsel endorsed the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s December 2006 verdict that convicted Sidhu of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. […]

Gangster Dilpreet Singh Dhahan, who had shot singer Parmish Verma on Saturday, has released another threat on his social media account saying that he will fire 500 rounds to kill the singer. Parmish and his friend Kulwant came under attack around 12:30 am on Saturday at Sector 74 turning, just 300 meters away from their […]

A clogged toilet at a clinic led to the body of a two-day-old girl in Kerala. Her tiny body was reportedly flushed down the toilet and recovered only when the plumbers tried clear the passage. On Friday morning, when Dr Abdul Rehman, who runs a clinic next to his house in Palakkad district, noticed obstruction […]

Punjabi singing sensation Parmish Verma was shot in Mohali on April 14, after the singer had completed a live act in the city. He and his crew were on their way back when a few unidentified people, who were following his car, opened fire him on the highway. The bullets hit the singer and his […]

SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia said on Friday that the Punjab government, having endorsed the conviction of its local bodies minister, Navjot Singh Sidhu, in the Supreme Court in a road rage case dating to 1988, should now dismiss him.Majithia described Sidhu’s presence in the Punjab cabinet as “utterly untenable on moral grounds”. “It is […]